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Chicago examiner friday september 25 1908 vol vi no 239 a m price one cent rs 1 "* i ."' 30 cents per kcoatli bryan rad haskell record when he named him treasurer oklahoma editor presented him with complete case one year ago destroyed the charges -â€” / m tnre up document and tossed 11 out of cat window kansas city mo sept 24 l t russell editor of the ardmore okla morning democrat wbo is in kansas city sent a letter to-night to w 1 bryan call ing attention to the fact that all the charges made by w r hearst against governor haskell were disclosed b.v him to mr bryan last fall and that mr bryan then deliberately tore np the charges thc letter follows to w j bryan lincoln neb : 1 no tice that in your reply to president roose velt's atttack on governor haskell you say you were entirely ignorant of there ever having been any charges made against mr haskell if you were ignorant of such charges it is because you refused to read them when presented to you when you visited oklahoma last fall in the interest of candidate haskell at that time i per sonally presented to you ten typewritten pages of charges against mr haskell cov ering his operations iu ohio new york arkansas texas and oklahoma tou did me the courtesy of tearing them np and throwing them out the train window without reading them the charges recently made hy mr hearst were all made by nie at that time i now offer you the following informa tion concerning his relations with the standard oil's subsidiary company in okla homa since he became governor last spring before the prairie oil & gas company began operations in the pipe line construction in violation of the law i made a visit to guthrie while stand ing in the statehouse lobby vt a led hetter attorney for the waters-pierce ioil company in oklahoma came out of gov ernor haskell's private office and asked me to accompany him to the telegraph office as he had a very important tele gram to send on the way to the station he explained that he had been in confer ence with governor haskell on some oii matters when we reached the telegraph office mr ledbetter wrote a telegram to colonel j d johnson general attorney for the waters-pierce company at st louis saying i have just finished a con ference with governor haskell and every thing is satisfactorily arranged as i quote from memory in a very short time the prairie oil _ gas company began preparations for con structing its pipe line without becoming a domestic corporation attorney general west began threatening suit haskeit fought the suit through all the courts io the state supreme court with hired privatt attorneys on the ground that the governor alone could institute a few days be fore the supreme court handed down its decision haskell prepared a very lengthy document covering nearly two pages of his weekly paper the new state tribune i personally saw the letter from col onel j d johnson to his oklahoma at torney w a ledbetter agreeing to pay for and circulate 30,009 copies of has kell's attack on west and his defense for refusing to prosecute the prairie oil ft gas company in the past mr haskell's answer to all charges have been you are a liar i wish to say that the two made above cannot bc answered in that way for i will on an hour's notice go to guthrie and appear be fore a board of inquiry and there testify under oath with mr ledbetter making the telegraph records a part of the hear ing same to speak for itself the coudi tions to be that the telegraph records be made public and mr ledbetter agree to testify under oath and answer all ques tions tending to prove or disprove my charges l t russell editor ardmore morning democrat haskell must clear himself or quit job governor charles x haskell of okla homa is rushing toward Chicago at express speed to show cause why he should not b summarily ejected from the treasurership of the democratic national committee he is coming on the understanding that he must absolutely clear himself of the charges made by william randolph hearst and backed by president roosevelt or be thrown out neck and crop literally governor haskell is to be put upon his trial when he reaches here tin judge ond jury are to be william j bryan the sponsor of haskell and his in timate friend mr bryan issued the sum mons also calling haskell into court and he will be here saturday morning to hear the case mr bryan's decisive action about has kell was taken yesterday apparently the fact became so patent that the governor fof oklahoma ha6 had and perhaps still has underground connectious with stand ard oil that even mr bryan hud to take cognizance of the gravity of the situi hon at any rate he had a telegram sent haskell ordering bim to drop every thing and make the best speed possible lo chlrajjo id order that he might be here to-night haskell was on a speaking tour through snubbed by sorority pastor sends wedding fee back on learning donor is divorced man learns truth frcm trustees after uniting rich st louisan to his secretary st louis mo sept 24 with an ap pended statement to the effect that he did not personally know the circumstances under which walter j holbrook presi dent of the holbrook-blackwelder real estate company married miss jessie pur cell his private secretary the rev arthur c lincoln assistant pastor of the pilgrim congregational church who performed the ceremony august 8 has returned a check for the marriage fee he received the rev mr lincoln did not learn until recently that mr holbrook had been di vorced by his first wife on may 20 1908 the couple are now in europe where they expect to remain until next month making a tour of england,~ltaly france germany and other european miss purcell had served as mr hol brook's private secretary for two years preceding the divorce on the return of mr and mrs holbrook from a trip abroad on which they were accompanied by miss purcell in july 1907 mrs holbrook en tered suit for divorce alleging that she had been subjected to humiliations and in dignities she received 150,000 in settle ment of her claim for alimony according to a member of the board of deacons of pilgrim church the board sug gested the matter to mr lincoln and ac quainted him with the facts he then returned the money of his own accord millionaire fights suit of doctor for 700 bill james dempsey declines to pay phy sician's charge james dempsey a multi-millionaire lum ber dealer of manistee mich is defendant in a suit called for trial before judge gibbons yesterday in which dr bertha van housen 4843 calumet avenue is plaintiff the physician seeks to collect a bill for 700 for her services to the de fendant's daughter dorothy twelve years old dempsey is said to have declined to pay the amount asked by dr van housen on the ground that it is exorbitant and has employed attorney theodore case to aid him in convincing the jury that such is a fact attorneys kickham scanlan and roy d keehn represent the physi cian dies after attending funeral of comrade grief over loss cf friend hastens death of herman schlottke a comradeship extending over many years was terminated yesterday when her man schlottke 398 hastings street suc cumbed to heart disease while attending the funeral of henry goschen 1446 s central park avenue mr schlottke who was sixty years old had grieved deeplv ever since the death of his friend a few days ago and when he entered the par lor to view his dead body yesterday after noon he wns led away fainting ho died in a carriage on the way to his home - heartbroken girl's letters tell of sorority snub pauline parker's conespond ence explains her leaving hyde park school dropped for being poor revelations in missives sur pass evidence in board's possession heartbroken by the treatment of ber classmates in the hyde park high school pauline parker who had been refused mem bership in one of the greek letter sorori ties has discontinued ber studies rather than face her classmates any longer she has embodied the story of her experience in a series of lelters addressed to a girl chum who lives in new york city president schneider of the school board said last night that the letters give a more graphic picture of the conditions ln the Chicago public school sororities and fraternities than any arguments that have yet been advanced against a continuance of greek letter societies barred from sorority pauline parker was graduated from the walter scott grammar school in woodlawn with honors she was one of the most popular girls in the school her mother sent her to the hyde tark high school last winter and pauline tried to get into one of the sororities she was rejected because her mother was not rich but it was not until she was made to feel that not to be a member of a sorority meant that she was an outcast from the society of the other girls that pauline took the rejection of her application for membership to heart the letters she wrote tell the story extracts from them follow Chicago 111 feb 1 1908 dear elsie i am perfectly wild with joy 1 graduate from the grammar school to-morrow and i passed with over 90 in everything of course i'm glad to graduate but i do hate to leave old robert burns mother says i can't join a sorority but i know so many of the sorority girls nnd i'm sur when mother meets them she will change her mind why the girls say you're nobody at the hyde park high school if yon don't belong to a sorority and you know you used to make fun of me l was so proud of being called the most popular girl in the robert burns school oh i guess i can coax mother all right paulixe Chicago 111 feb 4 1908 deaf elsie i start high school monday met some of the girls who belong to the alpha beta sorority they are going to call on mother sunday but i don't care to join that sorority i want to joiu the one the nash girls belong to its the swellest in hyde park and i have met a good many of the girls paulixe attends her first spread Chicago 111 sept 5 1908 dear elsie â€” 1 have just come from my first spread mother says it isn't inde pendent of me to go to the girl's spreads when i can't join their sorority i don't care to joiu this one though they are not a national but the girls coaxed me so hard and i thought i would just like to see what a spread was like well i was never so fright ened in my life just loads and loads of girls came in and stood around laugh ing and talking i was so fussed i couldn't eat a bit of all the good things they had but the members didn't seem to be the least bit embarrassed oh 1 must join the phi kappa beta i wouldn't care so much if you were here dear but i've been lonesome ever since you went away paulixe anticipates invitation Chicago feb 9 1908 dear old chum l'm just sure honey that i'm going to be bid to * the thi kappa sorority i am invited to their spread and yesterday two of the girls took me to luncb last night i went home with one of the older girls and she called me cutie all the â€¢ time and just raved at my voice said i would be such a help at their enter tainments you ought to see one of the phi kappa pins they are so pretty of course they cost something and the dues are quite a little but i'm going elkins son sued for 100,000 by actress ada louise lonsdale asks damages for breach of promise to marry senator denies charge admits papers have been served but says engage ment never existed new york sept 24 blaine elkins son of senator stephen b elkins of west virginia and brother of katherine elkins who is reported to be engaged to the duke of abruzi ; . was made defendant iu,a 100 000 breach of promise suit to-day through papers which were tiled in the federal court in his bome state the plaintiff is miss ada louise lonsdale an actress to whom young elkins was reported to be engaged on several occasions before his marriage to miss emily bird kenna last february in her deposition which was made in this city on september 21 miss lonsdale sets forth ln detail her grounds for suing young elkins who she says proposed on many occasions to marry her and even went so far as publicly to place a wedding ring on her finger in thc presence of a third party and to declare that she was his wife in a talk over the telephone to-night senator elkins from his home holly hurst elkins w va said that his son has been notified during the day that suit had been begun against hhn for breach of promise by miss lonsdale father denies charge we have not received a copy of the complaint yet said the senator avhen he had been informed that miss lonsdale asserted blaine had promised to marry her the father said there ls not a word of truth in it my son never promised to marry this young woman and there is nothing in it he denies the whole charge absolutely vs tien told of the specified occasion when miss lonsdale said blaine put a ring on her finger in the presence of another the senator said there is no-truth in that : and the party named is dead senator elkins stated that his son blaine was staying at holly hurst but at that moment was iu the village he said the suit would be vigorously contested trouble has been smoldering ever since young elkins unexpectedly married miss kenna daughter of the late john e kenna who for years was a deadly polit ical rival of the elder elkins and who is said to have died of a broken heart from reverses ln politics was once divorced miss lonsdale first came into notice when her young husband leonidas scoffy then private secretary to representative bartlett of new y'ork had a street scene with enoch totten a leading lawyer of washington because it had been said that before her marriage the lawyer had been attentive to miss lonsdale then came a divorce in june 1907 miss lonsdale in com pany wih young elkins and some other friends were attending a performance on the new amsterdam theater roof when a chameleon which the actress was wearing slipped from her shoulder and fell inside her peek-a-boo waist she screamed and youfl elkins rushed to her rescue tore the shivering little animal from its hiding place and killed it miss lonsdale began to weep and be tween sobs said : blaine gave me the chameleon with my engagement ring from this statement the rumor that the young couple was engaged spread until elkins began to receive telegrams of con gratulation from his friends it was a sur prise therefore when last february the announcement of young elkins marriage to miss kenna was made it was learned to-day from a reliable source that miss lonsdale was willing up to the last minute before the papers were filed to settle the matter for 20,000 but young elkins refused to come to the con ferences which were arranged to discuss the matter a roosters may crow at will says judge gas engine however is eliminated on neighbors complaint william seheller 697 evanston avenue keeps roosters they crow at night so neighbors had seheller arrested for dis orderly conduct the case came up before municipal judge blake in the sheffield avenue court yesterday william col borne 693 evanston avenue told the judge tha the had not had a good night's rest for six mouths roosters are roosters said tha coiut it's no crime to keep them defendant ls discharged roosters shrieks however are different from the noise caused by a die-cutting machine ponderdick brothers 186 leavitt street agreed to do away with a gas en gine and a stamping machine iu order not to disturb the neighbors pittsburg heir charges bride kidnaped him pittsburg pa sept 24 pittsburg society was astounded to-day at the an nouncement that george c weiss son of matthew weiss the rich restaurateur of this city has filed suit for divorce against his bride of a few months julia kelly weiss alleging that she practically kid naped him and by fraud induced him to marry her mrs weiss ic redly de 3 her husbaud frequently entered ao fundlons dlsjrulaed as a woman * _____!___ m'laurin proved oil trust senator hearst reads letters to archbold hegan get ii senator for 1,000 shows that republican party owns john p elkins of pennsylvania haskell steel trust aid hughes revealed as corpora tion friend and mack is called falsifier standard oll'fy national staff up to date joseph b foeaker tj s senator joseph w bailey u s senator john d m'lauein u s senator c n haskell democratic national treasurer joseph c sibley * former member of house of repre sentatives . new york sept 24 at the independence party state convention to-night at cooper union which nomi nated clarence j shearn for gov ernor william randolph hearst made even more startling revela tions of the hold which the standard oil company has se cured upon united states sena tors and leaders of both the old parties he read letters from senator john l mclaurin of south car olina who dickered with arch bold of the standard oil crew and asked for standard oil sup port to help him beat tillman for re-election to the senate he showed by personal letters from congressman sibley that he had hinted to archbold in a let ter that the friendship of a well known republican senator could be secured by the oil trust for a loan of 1,000 mr hearst said : my friends the national inde pendence party exists to-day as an active and powerful force for good in every state in the union from many states i bring ths greetings of the independence party to this convention of th state in which the independence party was born mr hisgen and i have carried your greetings and your doctrines throughout the country we have maintained your contention that both the old parties are hopelessly corrupt and we have been able with court records and signed doc uments to substantiate the asser tion new party the people's hope we have offered the country a new party â€” the independence party â€” as the one hope of rescuing the people's government from the con trol of depraved bosses purchased politicians and corrupt corpora tions in indianapolis we spoke in the largest theater in the city to an audience which filled every seat and overflowed into every aisle in indiana the independence party has nominated a splendid type of sturdy independent american citt ben for governor the hon jame zion mr zion is one of the lead ing farmers and fruit growers of the state and is known as the apple king he has fought trjist oppression and politica cor rudtioryfca-jkears and he welcomes senator m'lckurin's letter asking oil trust help hon john l mclaurin senate chamber washington d_c united states senate bennettsville s c may 29 1902 t)ear mr archbold i have pushed my fights so vigorously that they have called on tillman i met him at gaffney and beat him at his own game i called his bluff and now the fight is for two seats in the senate instead of one i can beat tillman if properly and generously supported there is no time to lose however i inclose an account of both meetings for your information with kindest re gards i am yours sincerely john l m'laurin an oil trust steward of merit 26 broadway april 21 1903 mr ivederick l eldridge first vice president knickerbocker trust company 66 broadway city tc v ear mr eldridge it gives me pleasure to introduce to imj you hereby senator j l mclaurin of south carolina who desires to discuss with you some business questions of mutual inter est i cannot speak in too high terms of senator mclaurin for whom i bespeak your most kindly consideration very truly yours john d archbold how sibley negotiated $ 1 000 loan from oil trust for senator personal and confidential house of representatives washington nov 23 1905 my dear mr a a rep u s senator came to me to-day to make a loan of 1,000 i told him i did not have it but woul try and get it for him and would let him know in a day or two do you want to make the investment he is one who will do anything in the world that is right for his friends if ever needed please telegraph me yes or no i will give you name when i see you i don't know but what i ought to come over and see you events are crowding and i am on the inside of them and i think i am play ing no small hand and want to know whether to go ahead the nom ination of a republican president is not yet settled no man can safely predict the nominee and guess i have got hold of the real situa tion as closely as any one here if you need me for any purpose telegraph me and i wil come over sincerely yours joseph c sibley 25 masons routed by angry woman riot call sent in when whole family joins war against mew brick wall who lays a brick on yonder wall dies like a dog she said that's ail a twentieth century version of barbara fritchie is mrs fred brogini 216 for quer street mrs brogini is forty-eight years old strong and powerful if she hadn't been she could not bave put to rout a gang of twenty-five workmen as she did twice yesterday it took a wagon load of policemen as it was to subdue the woman and the members of her family workmen started yesterday morning to lay a wall on the lot adjoining the brogini home mrs brogini thought the wall would encroach on her property anyway she did not like the idea of having the light shut out of the brogini home war like preparations started at once mrs brogini armed herself with a glistening new revolver brogini and the little brog inis took pails of hot water as their weapons xow hike mrs brogini commanded the workmen they took one look at the woman an other at the revolver a third at the palls of hot water and hiked they get out a warrant for the woman from the nearest police station and re sumed work about 3 o'clock in the after noon mrs brogini and her revolver bro gini and the little brogiuis and the pails of hot water reappeared on the scene again the workmen fled this time a riot call was sent in for police help after a battle the womau her husband and her children were all locked np on a charge of disorderly con duct later they were released on bonds policemen are guarding the workmen now ask court to protect property from county otto e i'teund and other property own ers lu evanstoii yesterday brought suit in the superior court to enjoin the county treasurer from selling their property for defaulted assessments to purchase land to open howard street they also seek to vacate an order of condemnation entered in ihe circuit court the property owners declare they failed to pay the assessments on representations by evanston officials that an ordinance calling upon the courts to condenm t_e property was to be re pealed i l \ _-_-_-_ _-_ g 0 p kept the oil trust's 100,000 roosevelt's order to return 1904 campaign contribu tion ignored by bliss new york sept 24.-early in the 1004 campaign according to the world the standard ou company as well as other trusts railroads banks and large corporations received a request to con tribute to the republican national cam paign fund this request was ignored henry h rogers being responsible for its refusal later when the second call for campaign funds was made mr cortelyou chairman of the republican national committee sent word to mr rogers asking for an appointment at which the existing conditions could he explained and the financial support of the standard oil secured this appointment was made by mr rogers to be kept at 26 broadway the standard oil building and mr cortelyou was informed that both mr rogers and john d archbold would be pleased to see him mr cortelyou finding that mr rogers was not to meet him alone but that mr archbold was also to be present concluded it would be safer and more discreet not to go himself the appointment was kept by cornelius n bliss treasurer of the na tional committee mr rogers and mr archbold made a contribution of 100,000 this contribu tion coming to the knowledge of president rooes7elt he wrote to chairman cortelyou a violent letter denouncing the standard oil company and directing the return of the contribution this letter is on mr corelvou's file and a copy of it is kept by president roosevelt for the purpose of mak ing it public if ever the facts of this standard oil contribution became known the contribution was not returned xot one cent was paid back the same was used so far as mr rogers and mr arch bold knew in like manner with other con tributions \ landlord takes a gold tooth for rent due when he went before a gary lod magistrate to swear out a warrant for the arrest of john rankoyicz yesterday john rous who had boarded for some months with rankovlcz said the landlord tied him to a bed nut a string around his gold tooth and yanked the tooth out after he had tried in vain to collect 40 rent a warrant was issued for raukovicz and his cuae will be heard to-day continued on 4th page 2d column i continued o;i sth page 4th column ft^mrfmtw^mf-^^^^^^^^^^^k^^mmimÃŸ i weather forecast || tn Chicago and vicinity gen yjl t ' vf erally fair and warm friday and % y v saturday showers and cooler by h via night winds mostly southerly mja ji|i*ffis*kafi here arc a whole lot of people who would jglgs^t ra^er be wright than be president that is riiilife wilbur not orville . :::::::::::: ' bere are a ' ot more people w ho would rather â€¢ â€” g j have a good job here in Chicago than to be either if you are one of the latter try an ad in the situation wanted columns of the examiner and get the job ::::::::: the examiner employment exchange will help also give it a trial and you will be convinced 70 washington st : : : : 1 1 5 fifth av : : : : 776 milwaukee av *. : : : jjs-a uinn of the examiner figg

Chicago examiner friday september 25 1908 vol vi no 239 a m price one cent rs 1 "* i ."' 30 cents per kcoatli bryan rad haskell record when he named him treasurer oklahoma editor presented him with complete case one year ago destroyed the charges -â€” / m tnre up document and tossed 11 out of cat window kansas city mo sept 24 l t russell editor of the ardmore okla morning democrat wbo is in kansas city sent a letter to-night to w 1 bryan call ing attention to the fact that all the charges made by w r hearst against governor haskell were disclosed b.v him to mr bryan last fall and that mr bryan then deliberately tore np the charges thc letter follows to w j bryan lincoln neb : 1 no tice that in your reply to president roose velt's atttack on governor haskell you say you were entirely ignorant of there ever having been any charges made against mr haskell if you were ignorant of such charges it is because you refused to read them when presented to you when you visited oklahoma last fall in the interest of candidate haskell at that time i per sonally presented to you ten typewritten pages of charges against mr haskell cov ering his operations iu ohio new york arkansas texas and oklahoma tou did me the courtesy of tearing them np and throwing them out the train window without reading them the charges recently made hy mr hearst were all made by nie at that time i now offer you the following informa tion concerning his relations with the standard oil's subsidiary company in okla homa since he became governor last spring before the prairie oil & gas company began operations in the pipe line construction in violation of the law i made a visit to guthrie while stand ing in the statehouse lobby vt a led hetter attorney for the waters-pierce ioil company in oklahoma came out of gov ernor haskell's private office and asked me to accompany him to the telegraph office as he had a very important tele gram to send on the way to the station he explained that he had been in confer ence with governor haskell on some oii matters when we reached the telegraph office mr ledbetter wrote a telegram to colonel j d johnson general attorney for the waters-pierce company at st louis saying i have just finished a con ference with governor haskell and every thing is satisfactorily arranged as i quote from memory in a very short time the prairie oil _ gas company began preparations for con structing its pipe line without becoming a domestic corporation attorney general west began threatening suit haskeit fought the suit through all the courts io the state supreme court with hired privatt attorneys on the ground that the governor alone could institute a few days be fore the supreme court handed down its decision haskell prepared a very lengthy document covering nearly two pages of his weekly paper the new state tribune i personally saw the letter from col onel j d johnson to his oklahoma at torney w a ledbetter agreeing to pay for and circulate 30,009 copies of has kell's attack on west and his defense for refusing to prosecute the prairie oil ft gas company in the past mr haskell's answer to all charges have been you are a liar i wish to say that the two made above cannot bc answered in that way for i will on an hour's notice go to guthrie and appear be fore a board of inquiry and there testify under oath with mr ledbetter making the telegraph records a part of the hear ing same to speak for itself the coudi tions to be that the telegraph records be made public and mr ledbetter agree to testify under oath and answer all ques tions tending to prove or disprove my charges l t russell editor ardmore morning democrat haskell must clear himself or quit job governor charles x haskell of okla homa is rushing toward Chicago at express speed to show cause why he should not b summarily ejected from the treasurership of the democratic national committee he is coming on the understanding that he must absolutely clear himself of the charges made by william randolph hearst and backed by president roosevelt or be thrown out neck and crop literally governor haskell is to be put upon his trial when he reaches here tin judge ond jury are to be william j bryan the sponsor of haskell and his in timate friend mr bryan issued the sum mons also calling haskell into court and he will be here saturday morning to hear the case mr bryan's decisive action about has kell was taken yesterday apparently the fact became so patent that the governor fof oklahoma ha6 had and perhaps still has underground connectious with stand ard oil that even mr bryan hud to take cognizance of the gravity of the situi hon at any rate he had a telegram sent haskell ordering bim to drop every thing and make the best speed possible lo chlrajjo id order that he might be here to-night haskell was on a speaking tour through snubbed by sorority pastor sends wedding fee back on learning donor is divorced man learns truth frcm trustees after uniting rich st louisan to his secretary st louis mo sept 24 with an ap pended statement to the effect that he did not personally know the circumstances under which walter j holbrook presi dent of the holbrook-blackwelder real estate company married miss jessie pur cell his private secretary the rev arthur c lincoln assistant pastor of the pilgrim congregational church who performed the ceremony august 8 has returned a check for the marriage fee he received the rev mr lincoln did not learn until recently that mr holbrook had been di vorced by his first wife on may 20 1908 the couple are now in europe where they expect to remain until next month making a tour of england,~ltaly france germany and other european miss purcell had served as mr hol brook's private secretary for two years preceding the divorce on the return of mr and mrs holbrook from a trip abroad on which they were accompanied by miss purcell in july 1907 mrs holbrook en tered suit for divorce alleging that she had been subjected to humiliations and in dignities she received 150,000 in settle ment of her claim for alimony according to a member of the board of deacons of pilgrim church the board sug gested the matter to mr lincoln and ac quainted him with the facts he then returned the money of his own accord millionaire fights suit of doctor for 700 bill james dempsey declines to pay phy sician's charge james dempsey a multi-millionaire lum ber dealer of manistee mich is defendant in a suit called for trial before judge gibbons yesterday in which dr bertha van housen 4843 calumet avenue is plaintiff the physician seeks to collect a bill for 700 for her services to the de fendant's daughter dorothy twelve years old dempsey is said to have declined to pay the amount asked by dr van housen on the ground that it is exorbitant and has employed attorney theodore case to aid him in convincing the jury that such is a fact attorneys kickham scanlan and roy d keehn represent the physi cian dies after attending funeral of comrade grief over loss cf friend hastens death of herman schlottke a comradeship extending over many years was terminated yesterday when her man schlottke 398 hastings street suc cumbed to heart disease while attending the funeral of henry goschen 1446 s central park avenue mr schlottke who was sixty years old had grieved deeplv ever since the death of his friend a few days ago and when he entered the par lor to view his dead body yesterday after noon he wns led away fainting ho died in a carriage on the way to his home - heartbroken girl's letters tell of sorority snub pauline parker's conespond ence explains her leaving hyde park school dropped for being poor revelations in missives sur pass evidence in board's possession heartbroken by the treatment of ber classmates in the hyde park high school pauline parker who had been refused mem bership in one of the greek letter sorori ties has discontinued ber studies rather than face her classmates any longer she has embodied the story of her experience in a series of lelters addressed to a girl chum who lives in new york city president schneider of the school board said last night that the letters give a more graphic picture of the conditions ln the Chicago public school sororities and fraternities than any arguments that have yet been advanced against a continuance of greek letter societies barred from sorority pauline parker was graduated from the walter scott grammar school in woodlawn with honors she was one of the most popular girls in the school her mother sent her to the hyde tark high school last winter and pauline tried to get into one of the sororities she was rejected because her mother was not rich but it was not until she was made to feel that not to be a member of a sorority meant that she was an outcast from the society of the other girls that pauline took the rejection of her application for membership to heart the letters she wrote tell the story extracts from them follow Chicago 111 feb 1 1908 dear elsie i am perfectly wild with joy 1 graduate from the grammar school to-morrow and i passed with over 90 in everything of course i'm glad to graduate but i do hate to leave old robert burns mother says i can't join a sorority but i know so many of the sorority girls nnd i'm sur when mother meets them she will change her mind why the girls say you're nobody at the hyde park high school if yon don't belong to a sorority and you know you used to make fun of me l was so proud of being called the most popular girl in the robert burns school oh i guess i can coax mother all right paulixe Chicago 111 feb 4 1908 deaf elsie i start high school monday met some of the girls who belong to the alpha beta sorority they are going to call on mother sunday but i don't care to join that sorority i want to joiu the one the nash girls belong to its the swellest in hyde park and i have met a good many of the girls paulixe attends her first spread Chicago 111 sept 5 1908 dear elsie â€” 1 have just come from my first spread mother says it isn't inde pendent of me to go to the girl's spreads when i can't join their sorority i don't care to joiu this one though they are not a national but the girls coaxed me so hard and i thought i would just like to see what a spread was like well i was never so fright ened in my life just loads and loads of girls came in and stood around laugh ing and talking i was so fussed i couldn't eat a bit of all the good things they had but the members didn't seem to be the least bit embarrassed oh 1 must join the phi kappa beta i wouldn't care so much if you were here dear but i've been lonesome ever since you went away paulixe anticipates invitation Chicago feb 9 1908 dear old chum l'm just sure honey that i'm going to be bid to * the thi kappa sorority i am invited to their spread and yesterday two of the girls took me to luncb last night i went home with one of the older girls and she called me cutie all the â€¢ time and just raved at my voice said i would be such a help at their enter tainments you ought to see one of the phi kappa pins they are so pretty of course they cost something and the dues are quite a little but i'm going elkins son sued for 100,000 by actress ada louise lonsdale asks damages for breach of promise to marry senator denies charge admits papers have been served but says engage ment never existed new york sept 24 blaine elkins son of senator stephen b elkins of west virginia and brother of katherine elkins who is reported to be engaged to the duke of abruzi ; . was made defendant iu,a 100 000 breach of promise suit to-day through papers which were tiled in the federal court in his bome state the plaintiff is miss ada louise lonsdale an actress to whom young elkins was reported to be engaged on several occasions before his marriage to miss emily bird kenna last february in her deposition which was made in this city on september 21 miss lonsdale sets forth ln detail her grounds for suing young elkins who she says proposed on many occasions to marry her and even went so far as publicly to place a wedding ring on her finger in thc presence of a third party and to declare that she was his wife in a talk over the telephone to-night senator elkins from his home holly hurst elkins w va said that his son has been notified during the day that suit had been begun against hhn for breach of promise by miss lonsdale father denies charge we have not received a copy of the complaint yet said the senator avhen he had been informed that miss lonsdale asserted blaine had promised to marry her the father said there ls not a word of truth in it my son never promised to marry this young woman and there is nothing in it he denies the whole charge absolutely vs tien told of the specified occasion when miss lonsdale said blaine put a ring on her finger in the presence of another the senator said there is no-truth in that : and the party named is dead senator elkins stated that his son blaine was staying at holly hurst but at that moment was iu the village he said the suit would be vigorously contested trouble has been smoldering ever since young elkins unexpectedly married miss kenna daughter of the late john e kenna who for years was a deadly polit ical rival of the elder elkins and who is said to have died of a broken heart from reverses ln politics was once divorced miss lonsdale first came into notice when her young husband leonidas scoffy then private secretary to representative bartlett of new y'ork had a street scene with enoch totten a leading lawyer of washington because it had been said that before her marriage the lawyer had been attentive to miss lonsdale then came a divorce in june 1907 miss lonsdale in com pany wih young elkins and some other friends were attending a performance on the new amsterdam theater roof when a chameleon which the actress was wearing slipped from her shoulder and fell inside her peek-a-boo waist she screamed and youfl elkins rushed to her rescue tore the shivering little animal from its hiding place and killed it miss lonsdale began to weep and be tween sobs said : blaine gave me the chameleon with my engagement ring from this statement the rumor that the young couple was engaged spread until elkins began to receive telegrams of con gratulation from his friends it was a sur prise therefore when last february the announcement of young elkins marriage to miss kenna was made it was learned to-day from a reliable source that miss lonsdale was willing up to the last minute before the papers were filed to settle the matter for 20,000 but young elkins refused to come to the con ferences which were arranged to discuss the matter a roosters may crow at will says judge gas engine however is eliminated on neighbors complaint william seheller 697 evanston avenue keeps roosters they crow at night so neighbors had seheller arrested for dis orderly conduct the case came up before municipal judge blake in the sheffield avenue court yesterday william col borne 693 evanston avenue told the judge tha the had not had a good night's rest for six mouths roosters are roosters said tha coiut it's no crime to keep them defendant ls discharged roosters shrieks however are different from the noise caused by a die-cutting machine ponderdick brothers 186 leavitt street agreed to do away with a gas en gine and a stamping machine iu order not to disturb the neighbors pittsburg heir charges bride kidnaped him pittsburg pa sept 24 pittsburg society was astounded to-day at the an nouncement that george c weiss son of matthew weiss the rich restaurateur of this city has filed suit for divorce against his bride of a few months julia kelly weiss alleging that she practically kid naped him and by fraud induced him to marry her mrs weiss ic redly de 3 her husbaud frequently entered ao fundlons dlsjrulaed as a woman * _____!___ m'laurin proved oil trust senator hearst reads letters to archbold hegan get ii senator for 1,000 shows that republican party owns john p elkins of pennsylvania haskell steel trust aid hughes revealed as corpora tion friend and mack is called falsifier standard oll'fy national staff up to date joseph b foeaker tj s senator joseph w bailey u s senator john d m'lauein u s senator c n haskell democratic national treasurer joseph c sibley * former member of house of repre sentatives . new york sept 24 at the independence party state convention to-night at cooper union which nomi nated clarence j shearn for gov ernor william randolph hearst made even more startling revela tions of the hold which the standard oil company has se cured upon united states sena tors and leaders of both the old parties he read letters from senator john l mclaurin of south car olina who dickered with arch bold of the standard oil crew and asked for standard oil sup port to help him beat tillman for re-election to the senate he showed by personal letters from congressman sibley that he had hinted to archbold in a let ter that the friendship of a well known republican senator could be secured by the oil trust for a loan of 1,000 mr hearst said : my friends the national inde pendence party exists to-day as an active and powerful force for good in every state in the union from many states i bring ths greetings of the independence party to this convention of th state in which the independence party was born mr hisgen and i have carried your greetings and your doctrines throughout the country we have maintained your contention that both the old parties are hopelessly corrupt and we have been able with court records and signed doc uments to substantiate the asser tion new party the people's hope we have offered the country a new party â€” the independence party â€” as the one hope of rescuing the people's government from the con trol of depraved bosses purchased politicians and corrupt corpora tions in indianapolis we spoke in the largest theater in the city to an audience which filled every seat and overflowed into every aisle in indiana the independence party has nominated a splendid type of sturdy independent american citt ben for governor the hon jame zion mr zion is one of the lead ing farmers and fruit growers of the state and is known as the apple king he has fought trjist oppression and politica cor rudtioryfca-jkears and he welcomes senator m'lckurin's letter asking oil trust help hon john l mclaurin senate chamber washington d_c united states senate bennettsville s c may 29 1902 t)ear mr archbold i have pushed my fights so vigorously that they have called on tillman i met him at gaffney and beat him at his own game i called his bluff and now the fight is for two seats in the senate instead of one i can beat tillman if properly and generously supported there is no time to lose however i inclose an account of both meetings for your information with kindest re gards i am yours sincerely john l m'laurin an oil trust steward of merit 26 broadway april 21 1903 mr ivederick l eldridge first vice president knickerbocker trust company 66 broadway city tc v ear mr eldridge it gives me pleasure to introduce to imj you hereby senator j l mclaurin of south carolina who desires to discuss with you some business questions of mutual inter est i cannot speak in too high terms of senator mclaurin for whom i bespeak your most kindly consideration very truly yours john d archbold how sibley negotiated $ 1 000 loan from oil trust for senator personal and confidential house of representatives washington nov 23 1905 my dear mr a a rep u s senator came to me to-day to make a loan of 1,000 i told him i did not have it but woul try and get it for him and would let him know in a day or two do you want to make the investment he is one who will do anything in the world that is right for his friends if ever needed please telegraph me yes or no i will give you name when i see you i don't know but what i ought to come over and see you events are crowding and i am on the inside of them and i think i am play ing no small hand and want to know whether to go ahead the nom ination of a republican president is not yet settled no man can safely predict the nominee and guess i have got hold of the real situa tion as closely as any one here if you need me for any purpose telegraph me and i wil come over sincerely yours joseph c sibley 25 masons routed by angry woman riot call sent in when whole family joins war against mew brick wall who lays a brick on yonder wall dies like a dog she said that's ail a twentieth century version of barbara fritchie is mrs fred brogini 216 for quer street mrs brogini is forty-eight years old strong and powerful if she hadn't been she could not bave put to rout a gang of twenty-five workmen as she did twice yesterday it took a wagon load of policemen as it was to subdue the woman and the members of her family workmen started yesterday morning to lay a wall on the lot adjoining the brogini home mrs brogini thought the wall would encroach on her property anyway she did not like the idea of having the light shut out of the brogini home war like preparations started at once mrs brogini armed herself with a glistening new revolver brogini and the little brog inis took pails of hot water as their weapons xow hike mrs brogini commanded the workmen they took one look at the woman an other at the revolver a third at the palls of hot water and hiked they get out a warrant for the woman from the nearest police station and re sumed work about 3 o'clock in the after noon mrs brogini and her revolver bro gini and the little brogiuis and the pails of hot water reappeared on the scene again the workmen fled this time a riot call was sent in for police help after a battle the womau her husband and her children were all locked np on a charge of disorderly con duct later they were released on bonds policemen are guarding the workmen now ask court to protect property from county otto e i'teund and other property own ers lu evanstoii yesterday brought suit in the superior court to enjoin the county treasurer from selling their property for defaulted assessments to purchase land to open howard street they also seek to vacate an order of condemnation entered in ihe circuit court the property owners declare they failed to pay the assessments on representations by evanston officials that an ordinance calling upon the courts to condenm t_e property was to be re pealed i l \ _-_-_-_ _-_ g 0 p kept the oil trust's 100,000 roosevelt's order to return 1904 campaign contribu tion ignored by bliss new york sept 24.-early in the 1004 campaign according to the world the standard ou company as well as other trusts railroads banks and large corporations received a request to con tribute to the republican national cam paign fund this request was ignored henry h rogers being responsible for its refusal later when the second call for campaign funds was made mr cortelyou chairman of the republican national committee sent word to mr rogers asking for an appointment at which the existing conditions could he explained and the financial support of the standard oil secured this appointment was made by mr rogers to be kept at 26 broadway the standard oil building and mr cortelyou was informed that both mr rogers and john d archbold would be pleased to see him mr cortelyou finding that mr rogers was not to meet him alone but that mr archbold was also to be present concluded it would be safer and more discreet not to go himself the appointment was kept by cornelius n bliss treasurer of the na tional committee mr rogers and mr archbold made a contribution of 100,000 this contribu tion coming to the knowledge of president rooes7elt he wrote to chairman cortelyou a violent letter denouncing the standard oil company and directing the return of the contribution this letter is on mr corelvou's file and a copy of it is kept by president roosevelt for the purpose of mak ing it public if ever the facts of this standard oil contribution became known the contribution was not returned xot one cent was paid back the same was used so far as mr rogers and mr arch bold knew in like manner with other con tributions \ landlord takes a gold tooth for rent due when he went before a gary lod magistrate to swear out a warrant for the arrest of john rankoyicz yesterday john rous who had boarded for some months with rankovlcz said the landlord tied him to a bed nut a string around his gold tooth and yanked the tooth out after he had tried in vain to collect 40 rent a warrant was issued for raukovicz and his cuae will be heard to-day continued on 4th page 2d column i continued o;i sth page 4th column ft^mrfmtw^mf-^^^^^^^^^^^k^^mmimÃŸ i weather forecast || tn Chicago and vicinity gen yjl t ' vf erally fair and warm friday and % y v saturday showers and cooler by h via night winds mostly southerly mja ji|i*ffis*kafi here arc a whole lot of people who would jglgs^t ra^er be wright than be president that is riiilife wilbur not orville . :::::::::::: ' bere are a ' ot more people w ho would rather â€¢ â€” g j have a good job here in Chicago than to be either if you are one of the latter try an ad in the situation wanted columns of the examiner and get the job ::::::::: the examiner employment exchange will help also give it a trial and you will be convinced 70 washington st : : : : 1 1 5 fifth av : : : : 776 milwaukee av *. : : : jjs-a uinn of the examiner figg